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INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING DUTY STATUS REPORT (CA-17) SUPERVISOR: Complete Side A and refer the form to the physician to complete Side B. Fill in the address of the Employing Agency and send a copy of this report to the OWCP address noted below. Enter the OWCP file number in the top right corner. PHYSICIAN:
In order to start receiving compensation as an injured federal worker, you are required to fill in certain key forms, with one of these being form CA-17.
May 5, 2018 · 'The Jazz Ambassadors': Cold War Diplomacy And Civil Rights In Conflict A new PBS film documents the African-American musicians who spread good will for the U.S. overseas during the war,...
Mar 29, 2018 · In 1955, as the Soviet Union’s pervasive propaganda about the U.S. and American racism spread globally, African-American Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. convinced President Eisenhower that ...
In 1956, America announced a new Cold War weapon to combat the USSR; jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Dave Brubeck, along with their racially-integrated band, would cross the globe to counter negative Soviet propaganda about racial inequality in America.
Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ambassadors, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and their mixed-race band members, faced a painful dilemma: how could they represent a country that still practiced Jim Crow segregation?
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May 4, 2018 · Discover how the Cold War and Civil Rights movement collided when America asked Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman to travel as cultural ambassadors and combat...
